Municipal Party System Gets Failing Grade...
From Communities
"The party system by way of Provincial and Federal representation is what has shone the glaring light on this idea of failure. MLAs and MPs beholden to party instead of constituents.
While this may not be the case with all of them…it’s hard to remember a time when a Party Member was willing to cross the aisle to support their constituents and Not Be Removed from the Party.
We’ve seen this most recently with the UCP in Alberta after Lesser Slave Lake MLA - Scott Sinclair - was removed from the UCP Caucus for expressing his discontent with the Provincial Budget put forward
https://sheldonyakiwchuk.substack.com/p/municipal-party-system-gets-failing
“Biggest Transnational Crime Group on Earth”: Why Canada Must Break Free From China
A group of top national security experts is sounding the alarm: Canada’s relationship with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has crossed from economic engagement into a full-blown democratic threat.
At a Dec. 6 forum in Toronto, former RCMP proceeds-of-crime director Garry Clement called the CCP “the biggest transnational organized crime group ever seen,” warning that Beijing is actively infiltrating Canada’s political, business, and cultural institutions. Through the United Front Work Department, the CCP co-opts elites, business leaders, community organizations, and media outlets—while intimidating and surveilling dissidents “on a daily basis.”
Clement also linked Beijing to the fentanyl crisis, saying the CCP could shut down precursor shipments to Canada “if they really wanted to,” but instead allows the flow as a form of “disruptive warfare,” echoing the tactics of the Opium Wars....
